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with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...

essentially the same as they were in the colonies, aside from the fact that slaves were far more important in the colonies, or bec...

were once again going to work for their country (not for themselves). It was during this war that women started working in the arm...

fact, Caulfield goes into an extensive and exhaustive couple of chapters on the constant parade of litigations against men who had...

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

life of their own, relegated to minding the household chores, raising the children and looking after a husband who never recognize...

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...

In the Hebrew Bible, women have varying roles but the most important roles are wife and mother. Most often, they are not seen as e...

This paper reviews the history of women's rights. Women fought diligently for the right to vote to the right to control their own...

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at advertising and its impact on women's self-esteem. The view that advertisers target...

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

filed the vast majority of sexual harassment cases, illustrating the fact that sexism still remains a very real problem for women ...

at somewhat of a juxtaposition with a positions that may be interpreted as contradictory. The shop is clearly placed in the discou...

patients did not respond to the same antidepressant drug. Individuals taking desipramine were successfully switched to amitriptyli...

This paper examines women's internet communities and commercial marketing with regard to women in this overview of Internet Relay ...

were discounted. It seemed to be an alien concept to the philosophical thinkers of the eighteenth century that the freedoms that ...

promising land reform has achieved a broad political peasant base. The Red Army is being recruited from Jiangxi. Chiang Kai-shek...